Microsoft in the last few years seems out of touch, is hostile to its own customers, is playing catcup and desparately trying to figure out what the next big thing is, and copies its competitors. With Satya at the helm they just seem... confused. Meanwhile PC use is dropping in the home, but still strong in the office, while Microsoft keeps focusing on the home while ignoring the office. The only place they are critical is the office, but the office is finding ways to work around Microsoft, like staying on Windows 7 and xp, linux and osx are more popular in the office than I've ever seen before, and so on. Honest, if it weren't for MS Exchange I think half of companies would just ditch MS altogether.
Startups. The goal is rarely to become profitable. Sometimes it's a way to keep some people off the street as long as they know a friend who's a smooth salesman who can con the venture capitalists.
I'm not sure. I know they've been under pressure, as in because they're making a profit therefore funding should be cut. It's free in UK (after tv tax), but not free elsewhere. There's the issue of iplayer not being usable outside of UK, whereas their plan for streaming their own stuff seems to be iplayer based. But since Doctor Who was yanked from netflix and hulu I haven't seen any updates to making content available for streaming.
The linear networks don't do that either. At the very start of the season they usually have half the season at least already complete, and sometimes the full season (especially British stuff that doesn't have the length 22 episode seasons).
The spoilers are in the news media. It's ridiculous. They're still stuck in the mode of thinking that of course everyone in the world has already seen the Walking Dead or Game of Thrones finales. So then the talk shows will advertise themselves loudly, as in "See Your Favorite Actor talk about this infamous death scene from yesterday's finale of Your Favorite Show!" Even avoiding that you see the spoilers in just the titles of uploaded youtube videos, spoiled even if you don't watch them, or sometimes an misjudged piece in a newspaper (which quips like "not to give any spoilers but it seems that the entire nation is talking about Your Favorite Actor's infamous death scene from Your Favorite Show.").
Sherlock is on Netflix. I'm waiting for access to the last two years of Doctor Who, and other decent BBC shows. It's in a quandary though; it wants a piece of the streaming pie, but is also restricted in how it can offer taxpayer sponsored programming to other countries.
Agreed. Mobile data is overpriced and overrated. I get along just fine with wifi the few times that I need to do something on my phone instead of a computer. Nevermind that phones and tablets are designed for people to consume advertisements with and not to get work done. Getting work done means getting input to the device and not just passively viewing information coming out of the device.
There's also some self selecting. I know I didn't even bother to apply to Stanford because I assumed that somewhere along the line we wouldn't have money for it unless there was a 4 or 5 year long complete scholarship. Others thought I was crazy. But it is a scary thought to think that you might have to change schools halfway through.
The math part is important too. I was probably first or second in my class, especially in math and science, but we didn't have calculus. I had pre-calculus but nothing to do the next year without spending half the day at a nearby junior college, which was only offered every other year. Neighboring schools did offer this. I know at least for Cal-tech that I know I would not be admitted without transferring from another college after catching up. So combine that with financial worries, and that means sticking to the state universities (which are top rated of course). Also Stanford didn't have an undergraduate computer science program at the time, oddly enough.
The irony though is that I knew a lot of students at my univerisity from one of the top high schools in the country who all tested out of beginning calculus class because their elite high schools offered it. But every single one of them struggled with diving straight into the later class without any buffering. None of them graduated sooner than other students. So my feeing is that advanced placement is highly overrated and does nothing but maybe get you an extra scholarship if you're lucky.
They add these features because there are indeed customers who are swayed by them. So who is dumber, the auto maker or the auto customer? And believe me, there are customers out there right now thinking "2G was a dumb choice, but at least 4G won't go obsolete in 15 years."
Of course you should expect *some* years out of the service at least. I bought a new phone once and a few months later they started transitioning to GSM and connectivity on it started getting worse and worse. All the while I would get mail about bringing in my phone to get a new simcard except that when I did they would say my new phone was too old to get the new simcard. And the phone was not just an older model still on sale, it was a reasonably current model.
People choose words carefully because of several things. Language is a complex protocol to communicate ideas, it may seem a simple concept in the brain but is complicated to get the idea across; break this down with alcohol and you see jumbled words as someone speaks faster than one thinks, and likelihood of profanity can rise Also we're trained to choose words carefully, told that theres a proper way of speaking either in school or at home, but this doens't always happen of course. Finally there is manners and politeness, also taught; someone speaks carefully to be polite or to maintain social standing.
"Honesty" can mean many things. Someone who has no verbal impulse control may be honest but it's not necessarily a good sign of character either. Such as when a person is drunk they are more likely to be honest because they lack the inhibition or capability of phrasing their words properly, and similarly drunk people do swear more. Honest also means one doesn't cheat or steal or take advantage of others, etc, which is not the same thing as blurting out the truth without thinking. For example, I'm sure the mugger in the alley will use quite a lot of profanity without being honest.
He lied about it because his wife was listening. If he'd been asked about it in a bar then presumably he'd be more likely to admit. Problem is he was put in a bad spot when asked that question when he hadn't even been given the chance to break the news to the family first. If you are cheating on your wife, the worst place for your wife to find out about it is on the nightly news on all channels.
There is some legal debate about whether or not this is strictly perjury, which does seem odd. The lying under oath has to be material to the proceedings. Also it's allowed to give evasive or misleading answers to questions under oath. Though impeachment rules are different from normal trials.
The upshot is, that for those who could be accurately described as Clinton's "enemies", this was proof positive, the final "aha!" moment giving them a chance for action after many fruitless years of investigation. And the perjury charge had a majority vote to acquit in the senate during impeachment despite having a majority Republican. But people still hang on to believing he had perjured himself and got away with it who never mention the stronger charge of obstruction of justice (50/50 vote in the impeachment).
I'm using Windows 8.1. I never see any ads, and I rarely see the tiles. It looks like Windows 7 for the most part, but without the overglossy Aero look and a functional start menu, whereas it does have some improved tools (I like the task manager myself). To me, Windows 8.1 is like having one of those keyboards from the late 90's that had an "Internet" button on them, you learn to ignore the stupid bits and get on with it.
For servers, you can keep the hardware security modules updated. For a phone you're stuck with the chips you shipped with. Custom hardware is too expensive for mass market products but is very feasible for in-house use. Even decent commercial HSMs can cost $500 or more.
It's not really a drought if you ignore all the people. Too many people live here though (I am biased though as native Californian), there's not enough water to go around. I don't want to lock the doors to anyone new coming in but maybe it needs to become a less desirable place to move to.
$3B is also peanuts compared to what it takes to maintain the existing roads and freeways, many of which would be unsuitable for self driving cars, for those who think that is going mainstream soon.
I see nothing being built or planned today that would justify your statement that will be ready in 7 years. We have some pie in the sky ideas with little basis in reality. We're spending billions already just keeping the freeways and roads in a mediocre state. Best way to get rid of congestion is to stop the morning traffic snarls and evening traffic snarls by removing the 9 to 5 mentality that public has; go to work at noon and go home at nine, or have workers on the night shifts, etc.
If it connects, they will buy a ticket from Merced to San Francisco. Merced is a university city now. Not so many going to Shafter but quite a lot for nearby Bakersfield. This sounds like typical city dweller talk, where no one outside of SF borders matters and no one outside of LA matters, and all rural people are just those too stupid to become baristas in the big city while trying to get an acting job.
People keep mentioning hyperloops. Those are inherently more expensive than rail though, so how can a complainer against high costs of rail turn around the support even higher costs for unproven technology? The same problems exist for both: getting right of way from land owners who want to see it fail, getting it where you want to go instead of just two points, dealing with regulatory and environmental hurdles, convincing legislatures that there will be ridership, etc.
I'd love to have St Ronnie back. We need more moderates who know how to think instead of ideological petrification. Doesn't mean I'd agree with Ronnie all the time, but he was certainly able to listen across the spectrum instead of assuming everyone not in his party was a traitor.
Private companies want investments that pay off in 1 to 5 years these days. What company ever bothers thinking long term anymore? Free market has been shown time and time again to not really address the needs of citizens as a whole anyway and is very dysfunctional when it comes to infrastructure.
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Hyperbole is saying "everyone's PC", whereas you tweaked that to say "nearly every PC". The original unedited statement stands as hyperbole.
Microsoft in the last few years seems out of touch, is hostile to its own customers, is playing catcup and desparately trying to figure out what the next big thing is, and copies its competitors. With Satya at the helm they just seem... confused. Meanwhile PC use is dropping in the home, but still strong in the office, while Microsoft keeps focusing on the home while ignoring the office. The only place they are critical is the office, but the office is finding ways to work around Microsoft, like staying on Windows 7 and xp, linux and osx are more popular in the office than I've ever seen before, and so on. Honest, if it weren't for MS Exchange I think half of companies would just ditch MS altogether.
Startups. The goal is rarely to become profitable. Sometimes it's a way to keep some people off the street as long as they know a friend who's a smooth salesman who can con the venture capitalists.
I'm not sure. I know they've been under pressure, as in because they're making a profit therefore funding should be cut. It's free in UK (after tv tax), but not free elsewhere. There's the issue of iplayer not being usable outside of UK, whereas their plan for streaming their own stuff seems to be iplayer based. But since Doctor Who was yanked from netflix and hulu I haven't seen any updates to making content available for streaming.
The linear networks don't do that either. At the very start of the season they usually have half the season at least already complete, and sometimes the full season (especially British stuff that doesn't have the length 22 episode seasons).
The spoilers are in the news media. It's ridiculous. They're still stuck in the mode of thinking that of course everyone in the world has already seen the Walking Dead or Game of Thrones finales. So then the talk shows will advertise themselves loudly, as in "See Your Favorite Actor talk about this infamous death scene from yesterday's finale of Your Favorite Show!" Even avoiding that you see the spoilers in just the titles of uploaded youtube videos, spoiled even if you don't watch them, or sometimes an misjudged piece in a newspaper (which quips like "not to give any spoilers but it seems that the entire nation is talking about Your Favorite Actor's infamous death scene from Your Favorite Show.").
Sherlock is on Netflix. I'm waiting for access to the last two years of Doctor Who, and other decent BBC shows. It's in a quandary though; it wants a piece of the streaming pie, but is also restricted in how it can offer taxpayer sponsored programming to other countries.
Agreed. Mobile data is overpriced and overrated. I get along just fine with wifi the few times that I need to do something on my phone instead of a computer. Nevermind that phones and tablets are designed for people to consume advertisements with and not to get work done. Getting work done means getting input to the device and not just passively viewing information coming out of the device.
There's also some self selecting. I know I didn't even bother to apply to Stanford because I assumed that somewhere along the line we wouldn't have money for it unless there was a 4 or 5 year long complete scholarship. Others thought I was crazy. But it is a scary thought to think that you might have to change schools halfway through.
The math part is important too. I was probably first or second in my class, especially in math and science, but we didn't have calculus. I had pre-calculus but nothing to do the next year without spending half the day at a nearby junior college, which was only offered every other year. Neighboring schools did offer this. I know at least for Cal-tech that I know I would not be admitted without transferring from another college after catching up. So combine that with financial worries, and that means sticking to the state universities (which are top rated of course). Also Stanford didn't have an undergraduate computer science program at the time, oddly enough.
The irony though is that I knew a lot of students at my univerisity from one of the top high schools in the country who all tested out of beginning calculus class because their elite high schools offered it. But every single one of them struggled with diving straight into the later class without any buffering. None of them graduated sooner than other students. So my feeing is that advanced placement is highly overrated and does nothing but maybe get you an extra scholarship if you're lucky.
Manning has had a trial and the opportunity to make a case.
They add these features because there are indeed customers who are swayed by them. So who is dumber, the auto maker or the auto customer? And believe me, there are customers out there right now thinking "2G was a dumb choice, but at least 4G won't go obsolete in 15 years."
Of course you should expect *some* years out of the service at least. I bought a new phone once and a few months later they started transitioning to GSM and connectivity on it started getting worse and worse. All the while I would get mail about bringing in my phone to get a new simcard except that when I did they would say my new phone was too old to get the new simcard. And the phone was not just an older model still on sale, it was a reasonably current model.
People choose words carefully because of several things. Language is a complex protocol to communicate ideas, it may seem a simple concept in the brain but is complicated to get the idea across; break this down with alcohol and you see jumbled words as someone speaks faster than one thinks, and likelihood of profanity can rise Also we're trained to choose words carefully, told that theres a proper way of speaking either in school or at home, but this doens't always happen of course. Finally there is manners and politeness, also taught; someone speaks carefully to be polite or to maintain social standing.
"Honesty" can mean many things. Someone who has no verbal impulse control may be honest but it's not necessarily a good sign of character either. Such as when a person is drunk they are more likely to be honest because they lack the inhibition or capability of phrasing their words properly, and similarly drunk people do swear more. Honest also means one doesn't cheat or steal or take advantage of others, etc, which is not the same thing as blurting out the truth without thinking. For example, I'm sure the mugger in the alley will use quite a lot of profanity without being honest.
He lied about it because his wife was listening. If he'd been asked about it in a bar then presumably he'd be more likely to admit. Problem is he was put in a bad spot when asked that question when he hadn't even been given the chance to break the news to the family first. If you are cheating on your wife, the worst place for your wife to find out about it is on the nightly news on all channels.
There is some legal debate about whether or not this is strictly perjury, which does seem odd. The lying under oath has to be material to the proceedings. Also it's allowed to give evasive or misleading answers to questions under oath. Though impeachment rules are different from normal trials.
The upshot is, that for those who could be accurately described as Clinton's "enemies", this was proof positive, the final "aha!" moment giving them a chance for action after many fruitless years of investigation. And the perjury charge had a majority vote to acquit in the senate during impeachment despite having a majority Republican. But people still hang on to believing he had perjured himself and got away with it who never mention the stronger charge of obstruction of justice (50/50 vote in the impeachment).
I can't say "bushings" without blushing.
I'm sorry, we gave our last refund to the previous caller.
I'm using Windows 8.1. I never see any ads, and I rarely see the tiles. It looks like Windows 7 for the most part, but without the overglossy Aero look and a functional start menu, whereas it does have some improved tools (I like the task manager myself). To me, Windows 8.1 is like having one of those keyboards from the late 90's that had an "Internet" button on them, you learn to ignore the stupid bits and get on with it.
For servers, you can keep the hardware security modules updated. For a phone you're stuck with the chips you shipped with. Custom hardware is too expensive for mass market products but is very feasible for in-house use. Even decent commercial HSMs can cost $500 or more.
It's not really a drought if you ignore all the people. Too many people live here though (I am biased though as native Californian), there's not enough water to go around. I don't want to lock the doors to anyone new coming in but maybe it needs to become a less desirable place to move to.
$3B is also peanuts compared to what it takes to maintain the existing roads and freeways, many of which would be unsuitable for self driving cars, for those who think that is going mainstream soon.
I see nothing being built or planned today that would justify your statement that will be ready in 7 years. We have some pie in the sky ideas with little basis in reality. We're spending billions already just keeping the freeways and roads in a mediocre state. Best way to get rid of congestion is to stop the morning traffic snarls and evening traffic snarls by removing the 9 to 5 mentality that public has; go to work at noon and go home at nine, or have workers on the night shifts, etc.
If it connects, they will buy a ticket from Merced to San Francisco. Merced is a university city now. Not so many going to Shafter but quite a lot for nearby Bakersfield. This sounds like typical city dweller talk, where no one outside of SF borders matters and no one outside of LA matters, and all rural people are just those too stupid to become baristas in the big city while trying to get an acting job.
People keep mentioning hyperloops. Those are inherently more expensive than rail though, so how can a complainer against high costs of rail turn around the support even higher costs for unproven technology? The same problems exist for both: getting right of way from land owners who want to see it fail, getting it where you want to go instead of just two points, dealing with regulatory and environmental hurdles, convincing legislatures that there will be ridership, etc.
I'd love to have St Ronnie back. We need more moderates who know how to think instead of ideological petrification. Doesn't mean I'd agree with Ronnie all the time, but he was certainly able to listen across the spectrum instead of assuming everyone not in his party was a traitor.
Private companies want investments that pay off in 1 to 5 years these days. What company ever bothers thinking long term anymore? Free market has been shown time and time again to not really address the needs of citizens as a whole anyway and is very dysfunctional when it comes to infrastructure.